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A little Eureka: A very significant project that will become indispensible in health research has been completed recently. Comprehensive genetic maps for mice and men, published in early March by two independent groups "signify the completion of the genetic mapping phase of the Human Genome Project", according to Francis S. Collins, director of the National centerfor Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health. It is estimated that it would take about a year to achieve a detailed physical map (a physical set of overlapping cloned DNA fragments), and less than eight years to complete the sequencing of the human genome. I firmly believe that much of the therapies of the future will be based on recombinant DNA technology, otherwise known as genetic engineering.